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TAGS: * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Travels of (documents); African Americans; Equality; Howard University, Washington, DC; Race; Race unity; United States (documents); Universities; War; Washington, DC, USA

Abstract:

Overview of the event, press coverage, publications of the speech, the Emancipation Proclamation "myth" and its historical influence, the role of whites, and the rhetoric of progress.

Notes:

Mirrored from academia.edu.

See an earlier version of this paper, a presentation at Louhelen.

Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Howard University Speech:

A Civil War Myth for Interracial Emancipation

Christopher Buck

published in Abdu'l-Bahá's Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity, ed. Negar Mottahedeh, pages 111-144

New York: Palgrave, 2013

Download: buck_abdul-baha_howard_speech.pdf.

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